Season Two of “Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty”—a trashy, gaudy soap opera about the high-flying, run-and-gun Showtime Lakers—begins with a reenactment from Game One of the 1984 NBA Finals. A charged win at the Boston Garden by the Lakers ends with the Los Angeles team rushing to the team bus before a…
“Nobody leaves until the game is finished” Signature Ent. in the UK and Lionsgate in the US have revealed an official trailer for King of Killers, an action thriller from writer Kevin Grevioux, making his feature directorial debut. This is launching in September (in both the US and UK) if anyone wants to watch. A…
As the leads in Jeff Rowe’s “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem” spoke with all the momentum of my kids when they have a bottle of Prime—it’s a new energy drink for those out of the loop—I thought about the difference between fast-paced and hyperactive when it comes to this kind of movie. “Spider-Man: Into…
“I’m asking you to take a leap of faith with me.” Netflix has revealed an official trailer for “interactive” romantic comedy from Netflix titled Choose Love. This is obviously exactly what you’d expect them to make one day – a love story where a young woman has to choose between three different men, but this…
“I know you are, but what am I?” wasn’t just some line from a movie. Growing up in the late-’80s and early-’90s, it was a ubiquitous retort to any insult a childhood bully could hurdle at you. It made outsiders feel impervious. It was schoolyard armor. And it will remain as timeless as the man…
This year’s Fantasia International Film Festival is well underway, having kicked off on July 21 and lasting through August 9. The world-famous genre-driven gathering in Montreal has been running for 27 years, debuting future sci-fi, horror, action, and all-of-the-above favorites. Yours truly will be covering the fest’s major premieres this year remotely, though I can practically hear…
“My mother taught me to analyze society, and not be quiet. If there’s something on my mind – speak it!” Yes! Earlier this year, Hulu & FX released this documentary series titled Dear Mama: The Saga of Afeni & Tupac Shakur streaming online. We posted the original teaser when it debuted last year, and now want to…
“Red eyes are an ominous sign. It’s when you will kill.” Illume Films has revealed an official trailer for an indie Hong Kong mystery thriller film titled Mad Fate, from filmmaker Soi Cheang. This first premiered at the 2023 Berlin Film Festival earlier this year, and also played at the Hong Kong Film Festival in…
This year’s SDCC had a weird vibe. Disney decided not to attend, meaning that Marvel Studios, Lucasfilm, HBO, Sony Pictures, Universal, and Netflix would not bring their stars for panels. The Writers Guild of America (WGA) and the Screen Actors Guild – American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA) dual strikes meant that actors…
How do you pick the best performance in a film defined by literally dozens of them? Christopher Nolan assembled a murderer’s row of talent for “Oppenheimer,” his grand historical drama about the birth of the atomic bomb and the consequences of its power. It contains a veritable smorgasbord of leading icons, character actors, former child…
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Plenty has changed in the five years since Prime Video’s “Good Omens” premiered. That amount of time between seasons can often be the death knell for a series like this, but one thing that hasn’t changed in that time is the chemistry between leads David Tennant and Michael Sheen. They continue to be the brightest…
The vehicular combat video game series “Twisted Metal,” where drivers battled each other in demolition derbies with guns and armor surrounding their cars, was one of the breadwinners on the original Sony PlayStation. It drove sales and spanned many games across multiple platforms until 2012’s PS3 version. Now in the PlayStation 5 era, Sony has gifted…
Conventional horror wisdom holds that children shouldn’t play with dead things, but the teenaged Gen-Z protagonists of new horror film “Talk to Me” just can’t resist a trend. Once videos start circulating online of parties where their high school peers hold a supposedly embalmed hand, light a candle, whisper “talk to me,” and experience a…
You just can’t kill Philip J. Fry. When Matt Groening premiered “Futurama” on FOX back in 1999, he probably foresaw it running for decades, much like his beloved TV staple “The Simpsons.” That wasn’t meant to be, and FOX canceled the witty animated sci-fi comedy in 2003, but reruns on Adult Swim did well enough…
“Who’s that handsome man on the wall?” Another new San Diego Comic-Con trailer debut. Even though the ongoing Writers & Actors Strikes have shut down production on the new season, and cancelled the panel at SDCC this year, AMC is still continuing to promote this series anyway. AMC dropped this first look official trailer for…
“I met the true assassin of my brother.” This restoration and re-release of Winter Kills is presented by author/filmmaker Quentin Tarantino, a longtime fan and champion of the movie. Film Forum will play a 35mm restoration of the 70s comedy thriller Winter Kills in August. It’s a spin on JFK: the younger brother of an…
“Barbie,” director and co-writer Greta Gerwig’s summer splash, is a dazzling achievement, both technically and in tone. It’s a visual feast that succeeds as both a gleeful escape and a battle cry. So crammed with impeccable attention to detail is “Barbie” that you couldn’t possibly catch it all in a single sitting; you’d have to devote…
The seven films Randolph Scott made with Budd Boetticher, five of which for Columbia with producer Harry Joe Brown, are Spartan in their efficiency and aesthetic. They’re largely set in the blasted, rocky and scrub-brushed Lone Pine, California, its crags and shadows reflected in the angular planes and hollows of Scott’s handsome, aging face here…
The Harlem Festival of Culture, a three-day festival celebrating Black music and artistry sparked by Questlove’s Oscar-winning documentary, “Summer of Soul”, will run from Friday, July 28th, through Sunday, July 30th in the titular New York City neighborhood. Mainstage events will occur at Randall’s Island, with additional performances and attractions scheduled at The Apollo and throughout Harlem….
“As long as it gets lots of views, right?” Screambox has revealed their own official trailer for a Czech horror comedy cult favorite called Shoky & Morthy: Last Big Thing, made by a Czech filmmaker named Andy Fehu. After first premiering in Czechia at the 2021 Karlovy Vary Film Festival, it’s finally getting released in…